PHILIPPINE TEAM IN 2013 POZNAN HOMELESS WORLD CUP SCORES 5 WINS The Philippine (PH) Team in the 2013 Poznan Homeless World Cup scored five wins in this year’s football tournament. The PH team’s coach Mr. Rudy del Rosario informed Ambassador Patricia Ann V. Paez yesterday that the team won over South Korea (4-2), Canada (3-1), Greece (6-5), Finland and India. Initially, PH tied with in its separate games with Finland and India (both at 3-3) but PH team member Mr. Juan Paolo Santos scored the winning goal in the tie-breaker penalty shootout in the match against Finland and India. Mr. Santos is 18 years old and is with the orphanange Manila Boys’ Town. Coach del Rosario also said that the teams from Finland, Romania and England became good friends with the PH team that the members of these country teams would always cheer on the PH team in all its games when the se three country teams were not playing. Amb. Paez herself witnessed the Finnish team chanting “Philippines!” when she watched the PH team’s game against Austria. The PH team arrived in Warsaw yesterday morning and were welcomed by Amb. Paez, Attache Ariel Gonzales and Mr. Ediwn Gonzales at the Warsaw Central train station. After breakfast, they all proceeded to the Philippine Embassy where the PH team sang “Bayani Ka,” which coach del Rosario himself composed for the PH team which competed in the 2010 Rio de Janeiro Homeless World Cup. It was made into a music video directed by Mr. Manny Magbanua, Jr. featuring the past lives of the 2010 PH team members as street vendor, jeepney “barker,” shoe shine boy, newsboy, garbage collector, loafer, etc. before they were recruited and trained to play football for the Homeless World Cup in Rio. After checking into their hotel, the PH team went on a city tour of Warsaw, including visits to Old Town and to the Royal Castle, followed by a Chinese lauriat dinner where an advance birthday celebration for Daryl Fernandez was held (his birthsday is tomorrow, 21 August) and a drop-by at Zapiekce for pierogi and more photo-taking. The PH team is due to leave Warsaw this afternoon for Manila via Dubai.
Posted on: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:18:58 +0000
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